Letter to C. F. Richardson from Juanita E. Jackson, Special Assistant to the Secretary, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, about reorganizing the Houston branch of the NAACP. The letter is dated February 24, 1937. Jackson...

Letter from C. F. Richardson, Sr. to Juanita E. Jackson, Special Assistant to the Secretary, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, dated February 27, 1937. Richardson thanks Jackson for her proposals and opinions and directs...

Letter from Charles Houston, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Special Counsel, to C. F. Richardson, Sr., dated October 22, 1937. Houston acknowledges that he has received Richardson's letter from October 16th regarding a...

Hirusaki, George J. -- Interviews;
Japanese American researchers -- Interviews;
Japanese American engineers -- Houston (Tex.)
Fluid power technology.

Born in Beaumont, Texas, George J. Hirusaki spent his early childhood with his father, a rice farmer in Texas, learning about agriculture and fluid flow. He graduated from Lamar University and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from Rice University. He...

"These three volumes tell the story of a courtship that began between two people who had never seen each other, and lasted for fifty-six years. Most people know this couple as Rev. William and Mrs. Audrey Hoffman Lawson. Audrey wrote to William on...

Contains the annual report for the Public Schools of the Independent School District of Houston for the fiscal year 1914 - 1915. Annual report contains remarks from the school district superintendents, a list of graduates from the districts schools...

Bishop Wendelin Nold grew up in Texas and went to Rome to study theology from 1921 to 1925. He was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston. He built 47 parishes, 14 missions, besides seminary and other institutions. He served under...

Subtitle: containing a history of the city; a complete index of all societies, associations, corporations, etc.; also, the full address of all residents, their occupations, pursuits, etc.; also, a complete business directory: an exhibition of the...